So many channels about retro mods are so careful and delicate but James is just as jank as the original truly gives retro vibes

@endeav0r_49

5 ай бұрын

James' family motto is "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing janky"

@AuroraAce.

5 ай бұрын

jankpods

@Dlndn_

5 ай бұрын

James here is an inspiration to all enthusiasts, we must be jank builders

@rainbowrambo7093

5 ай бұрын

I read this comment before putting this video on as background noise. Then I look over after hearing dremels, "hot glue hot glue hot glue", and see plastic being cut off with pliers. I see what you mean now.

@doctorrobert1339

5 ай бұрын

He's just as insane as Wade lol

It's shocking the amount of angle grinding a console can take and still work.

@illustriouschin

5 ай бұрын

Have you seen the portable Wii (U?) hack?

@choppercove

5 ай бұрын

@@illustriouschin Yeah, the portable Wii where they chop off around 70% of the PCB. It's insane.

@southernflatland

5 ай бұрын

Fun fact, if you cut a board with a grinder or hacksaw or whatever, you really should finish off the edges with fine needle files/jewelers files. You don't want the traces from the different layers of the boards shorting together on rough cut edges.

@defenestratorr

5 ай бұрын

@@choppercove The portable Wii U is even more insane lol

@pul53gh

5 ай бұрын

@@defenestratorr wait those actually exist??

The fact James can so confidently rip out electronics and frankenstein them together and know exactly what he's doing is astonishing to me.

@ItsNotFrey

4 ай бұрын

I'm good, thanks mate. @Repent-and-believe-in-Jesus​

@fre_

4 ай бұрын

​@Repent-and-believe-in-Jesushot glue

@unknownidiot4001

4 ай бұрын

​@Repent-and-believe-in-Jesus can't quote stuff from the bible as proof of God

@Gwenithzo

4 ай бұрын

​@Repent-and-believe-in-JesusNot even God can stop James from making Gaming Monstrosities

@ExpandDong420

4 ай бұрын

​@Repent-and-believe-in-JesusNintendo Playstation

What always sells me with James' creations is just how violently he throws them together, I love it.

@ErwinHolland.

2 ай бұрын

What are you talking about? These are the most delicately built, high quality conversions I have ever seen! 🤣

The amount of times James says “I’m sure it’ll work,” “hopefully that works,” and “I’m sure it’ll be fine”is very reassuring

@Furko08

5 ай бұрын

That's how you know he knows what he's doing

@berkeokur99

5 ай бұрын

I’m a bit surprised that these stuff actually work usually on first try

@gir489returns2

5 ай бұрын

I feel like a lot of James’ quotes would look great on a T-shirt. “Kinda jams in here.”

@RAFMnBgaming

5 ай бұрын

to be fair it worked.

@deniskhafizov6827

5 ай бұрын

"You really shouldn't leave this unfused, but I'm just gonna leave it unfused"

To be so careless with one's components but still knowledgeable enough to make it all work (and to know what to fix when it doesn't work) is truly the mark of a craftsman.

@ZaHandle

5 ай бұрын

Once you know electronics you’ll know that PCBs are just fancy wires and you can easily locate failed components from the dark spot from its explosion

@RAFMnBgaming

5 ай бұрын

@@ZaHandle Mood. I'm thinking of getting a PCB put on the bottom of my desk so I don't have to worry about my garbage cable management anymore.

@CH-su5vj

5 ай бұрын

@@RAFMnBgaming you could just tape cables to the underside of your desk

@RAFMnBgaming

5 ай бұрын

@@CH-su5vj that still technically requires the management of cables.

@snizzol

2 ай бұрын

Exactly ! 😂

*Rest in pieces Parallel Port* *(1995 - 2024)*

@afan64

19 күн бұрын

It had a good time here on Earth. It's in a better bin now.

As a 12+yr iron worker/welder/fabricator/nerd, I see a lot of myself in you. Fellow nerd man to fellow nerd man, keep up the excellent nerd work Shit goes hard

I'm so used to these kinds of things being all precise and formal. Seeing you grinding circuit boards, ripping things apart, patching things together with wires, then dumping ten kilos of hot glue in there and ending up with a working item is such a breath of fresh air honestly

@tezcanaslan2877

5 ай бұрын

Like someone else said in one of his earlier videos, James is a early 19th century surgeon. He knows what parts do and what he has to do, he just lacks some technique.

@ImprovSpeech

5 ай бұрын

​@@tezcanaslan2877I think it's less he lacks the technique and more he refuses the technique

@foorocker91

5 ай бұрын

This comment is everything I thought as well. Great work on this James!

@forgot7en

5 ай бұрын

Nah. He has the knowledge and technique, but chooses to only show the knowledge while slapping shit together like an insane genius. It's like everyone is saying "please be careful" and he's like "ppffffffttttttfdtfftpfpt SURE KID" and just ruins your life with knowledge @@tezcanaslan2877

@moji3812

5 ай бұрын

Yeah

This is an absolute cursed patchwork of a console but I can’t help but be amazed by it.

@floppydiscruler

5 ай бұрын

It’s really is “that’s stupid. I LOVE IT”

1:41 PS: Oh you fixed me. James: HAHA it's time to rip it's guts out

The way he talks about what he's doing puts me at ease and makes me realise, we're going to get the end result and i'm going to wait and watch it unfold

James is the type of guy to have a disc drive scratch his game and not hammer the drive to nothing.

@janson2911

5 ай бұрын

You mean 1 grit the drive to nothing?

@DrBagPhD

5 ай бұрын

​@@janson2911no that's Wade's domain.

@21baron

5 ай бұрын

Well, to be fair, he did used a GRINDER to work on it later, which it's a power play if I ever saw one

@21baron

5 ай бұрын

@Forthakine well, yes, but I'm sure every electronic in a three mile radius was getting the message lmao

James, you both inspire me and terrify me with your devil-may-care attitude towards electronics. I am in awe of your prowess

@zacharyhansen8250

5 ай бұрын

Devil does care. He wants to make sure everything stays working but his methodology is chaotic and evil.

Man I love these videos, nothing is careful, if you dont need it, rip it off, and hot glue everything. And the main peices are either free or leftover parts. I like this more than all these professional tech video's🤣

This man tears apart electronics with such confidence! I'm afraid to even look at an open PCB board the wrong way 😂

James is like a mad scientist for electronics instead of chemistry

@HarrysDogmalaysia

5 ай бұрын

So a mad engineer?

@dualitysDownfall

5 ай бұрын

@@HarrysDogmalaysia ...yeah!

@GoredonTheDestroyer

5 ай бұрын

Like a drunken Tech-Priest who is also Australian.

@breadnaught3711

5 ай бұрын

Explosions & Fire/Extractions & Ire. Backyard chemist in Australia.

@NONAME_098

5 ай бұрын

Nile red but tech

That was 10 minutes and 54 second of pure carnage and I absolutely love it, I applaud your craftsmanship and knowladge towards electronics. That was sheer perfection.

@Games_for_James

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@MacDonnellFTAA

4 ай бұрын

@@Games_for_James I've enjoyed every video both you and Wade have posted thus far, keep up the amazing work!

@powercage

2 ай бұрын

I couldn’t look away.

The SNES thinks its all fun and games until he whips out the ol' Angle Grinder

You playing Pepsiman made this video 100% better This, the portable Super Nintendo, that NES inside a NES cart... I really love what you do, and I'm looking forward to see what you will do next.

The only man to truly treat vintage electronics with the respect they deserve.

I absolutely love “put a game in the cartridge slot”

Honest to god, this is inspirational to me. I get stuck in "Project deadlock" on a regular basis, and it helps to see how to complete a project. Not everything has to be elegant. Not everything can be parametric and perfect. If it works, it achieves the goal. Youre a chaotic bastard, and you're a genius.

Excellent video. I love your storytelling. fast, economical, clear. I learned a lot about looking at things that I had too much reverence for. I am amazed at how many changes you can make, fire it up and it's still working. Thank you for sharing your project.

@Games_for_James

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

As an engineer, I am absolutely horrified at how you did this. But I still couldn't stop watching it.

@CrimenesDiarios

5 ай бұрын

​@@juser-abuseras a puerto rican Im not American enough to understand both of you.

@johnboydojo

5 ай бұрын

@@CrimenesDiarios HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Bloody Classic!! We have a winner!! 🏆

@NiwaFlan

5 ай бұрын

Omg hi koishi pfp

@ducks514

5 ай бұрын

OK larper

@xrtgaming2000

5 ай бұрын

​@@juser-abuserò

That was... the most horrifying and cursed console modding video I have ever watched. Great job James! Just a few weeks late for Halloween I'm afraid.

Wonderful work and summary!!! Love the upright optical. I made a VCR media center PC that was featured on Gizmoro a loong time ago, and used the VCR slot for pop out tray. You're inspiring me as I look around at unsuspecting hardware 😂

I honestly subscribed just because of how you are all about fuckin shit up and just running with it. The fact that this is your process and the end result works is fantastic.🤘

That disc spinning openly in the SNES cartridge slot is a thing of true beauty, Dr Frankenstein sends his regards.

I'm impressed with how violent the modding can be and still, you know, work.

Im in love with your approach of just ripping and tearing until it somehow works

I am 99% sure a PS5 would instantly set ablaze on contact with a screwdriver

The angle grinder is a very welcome addition to the videos. I hope to see more of it in the future

@Frank_Pods

5 ай бұрын

I call it the 1 Grind

@mathewdeering

5 ай бұрын

AND A YOITUBE STAR SIDE CHARACTER WAS BORN @@Frank_Pods

@gamerin123d6

5 ай бұрын

The angle grinder is James' version of the 1 grit

@Augnos

5 ай бұрын

Angle grinder definitely needs a name!

@G-Cole-01

5 ай бұрын

@@Augnos one name i thought of was Disk Utility.

This whole video had me gritting my teeth, with my eyes wide and my heart racing. I could sense my own physical discomfort tangibly emanating through the room around me. I kept waiting for the moment when it all went to hell. The stress was so intense, I was sweating bullets. I got so scared, I almost called my mom to come pick me up. If chaotic evil was a retro gaming KZreadr, this is that guy. Congratulations sir, you successfully made me uncomfortable for 11 minutes straight. ... Subbed. 👍🏻

@YesOkayButWhy

5 ай бұрын

That'd be the bag.

LOL i love your channel i first found your channel wen you made the nes cartrage that plays nes games and even with the loop back its self . you had me laughing all day with how you take things appart destructively and rewire them to make them work again. keep up the good work .

This was one of THE BEST VIDEOS I have every seen 😊 really enjoyed the whole build process and was absolutely amazed by your skills

I feel like I'm watching a man perform open heart surgery with a wood axe I love this, please do more :)

@kimbryhagen

5 ай бұрын

don't forget the hot glue :)

@photondebuger45

5 ай бұрын

And it working too because he's that good

@Kovaelin

5 ай бұрын

And succeeding!

This was so much fun to watch. Every time he says this won't fit, I'd say to myself "surely he won't angle grind it" and he does 😂

@Cyman75

5 ай бұрын

Not always. Sometimes he also cracks parts into two pieces with his bare hands. 😂

@adez13

2 ай бұрын

The final product even looks like an angle grinder

0:41 that shell is so yellowed it looks like its gold

Your channel brings me so much joy. I was laughing like a maniac the entire video

I love how the disc drive is sideways and in the air. It looks so awesome. And as a bonus, you can tell when the PS1 authenticates the disc!

@PlutoTheSynth

5 ай бұрын

how can you tell that?

@voca-chan7953

5 ай бұрын

@@PlutoTheSynth The disc will start speeding up as it reads the wobble groove near the spindle hole.

@nickwallette6201

5 ай бұрын

@@PlutoTheSynth It speeds up. The first check (for the region-coded wobble) is done at a lower speed.

I love how James is the (relative) voice of reason on Garbage Time, but in reality he just matches Wade’s energy 😂

@matiasaguilar2500

11 күн бұрын

He's as competent at electronics as wade is at drumming, and just equally chaotic. It's easy to tell why they're friends

the fact james can selectively break stuff and end up with projects working perfectly fine shows that he actually knows a lot more than you'd expect at a first glance

1:47 “Don’t need that” *Metal clanging* 1:51 “Don’t need that” *Metal clanging*

The sudden cuts to power tools just grinding away at sensitive electronics is just *chef's kiss*

You know that Simpsons episode where Homer tries to build a BBQ and it ends up looking like an absolute mess, but it's mistaken as abstract art? That's the sort of vibe I get from James' projects 🤣 Great stuff.

@Games_for_James

5 ай бұрын

I nearly used that meme as the thumbnail 😂

@theyakkomanguy7522

5 ай бұрын

"That's one fine-looking Nintendo PlayStation. WHY DOESN'T MINE LOOK LIKE THAT?!"

@Games_for_James

5 ай бұрын

@@theyakkomanguy7522 It actually turned out looking way better than I expected 🤣 so I didn't use that meme

@seanmckelvey6618

5 ай бұрын

@@Games_for_James Mate, aside from the disc drive just sitting in the cartridge port I thought she was an official unit. 😤

This is so relatable. Exactly how my projects go. The idea of being perfect is there but I get impatient and just go for it!

Found your channel last night I’ve got my new fix until i watch every video keep up the great stuff also I am so dumbfounded that you can smash things apart and still manage to make em work again

James is the epitome of what I feel an engineer should be. Overlords: "We need this to do that and another thing" James: "On it. Doin' it. Done" Overlords: "It does exactly what we want it to, but it's not marketable" James: "Designers make twice what I do. Send'em my love"

This channel has unironically helped me so much in my own pursuit of electronics repair. Seeing the absolutely mad way James works eased so much of my anxiety and now I'm actually able to get things done instead of worrying about being overly precious with them lest they be ruined by anything other than perfection. You'd think any video in which an angle grinder was taken *multiple times* to a motherboard would be anxiety-inducing, but it's really quite the opposite.

0:55 this laugh perfectly sums up this man

The way you break some of the pieces off is like a train wreck, in that I can't stop watching it. 😂

I love being a technician and seeing him have absolutely zero regard as to if he’s breaking something or not

The blend of chaos and ingenuity is like hearing a symphony played entirely by airhorns.

@solidsnakeandgrayfox

5 ай бұрын

Or a shit ton of kazoos

idk why but like, your voice is just nice to listen to so all your videos are super rewatchable to me😭

I just recently saw this content and I fell in love fast. Keep making this content. Its loved

I feel like I'm watching a chef. Not one who follows a recipie but one who can feel in his soul what the dish needs.

@thewiseoldfox

4 ай бұрын

The best kind

@possibly_ben

3 ай бұрын

and then proceeds to dump a kilo of cocaine into the pot

@RAFMnBgaming

3 ай бұрын

@@possibly_ben If it's what the dish needs...

I was terrified when the angle grinder came out the first time, and then horrified when it started cutting the boards, but all in all i was amazed at the results, can't argue with those

@ProfWereW

5 ай бұрын

That's just a big dremel

10:15 - That's the end of Madame Web.

I love the chaos of this! Need more of this!

This is the most terrifying piece of electrical engineering I have ever witnessed in my entire life. AMAZING.

Just saw an article on GameRant about your Frankenstein creation, James! And I say "frankenstein" with the utmost respect, it was truly incredible to watch you just brute force this endeavor with sheer knowledge and circular saw skills.

Well, thats a realy nice combination of ideas! The outside spinning Disk is most impressive.

this is so chaotic, omg but so cool to see you can know what your doing and fly through this compared to everyone else who makes It seem like such a big deal.

Finally someone who mods with all the same mouth-foaming, rabid urgency, recklessness, and horrifying amount of hot glue that I do. This is spectacularly grotesque and you've earned yourself a sub only like 45 seconds in. Well done mate

James GameSpot posted an article about this on the front page! Congrats man!!!

@Games_for_James

5 ай бұрын

Oh wow!!

im always impressed by jamses precision tooling and design

This is really cool. I would suggest putting a protective cover on the disk so they don’t get damaged by outer things

I know someone is a master at their work when they can do it as careless as he does and still make something way better then most people can.

That AC-voltage power switch is terrifying. Cursed, amazing piece of work!

@deniskhafizov6827

5 ай бұрын

Actually, now this switch is commuting a lot less current than usual.

@H3wastooshort

5 ай бұрын

​@@deniskhafizov6827the current is fine, but the 230V arcing might fuck it up

@nticompass

5 ай бұрын

Old computers used to use "AT power supplies." Those also had the mains A/C voltage going through the power switch!

@H3wastooshort

5 ай бұрын

@@nticompass yeah, but this one might not be rated for mains voltage, given that it is only supposed to switch 9v (or 12, cant remember)

Most important takeaway for me was that hot glue is the electrical engineer's duct tape. Unless you don't have hot glue. Then use duct tape, right?

I have taken part my old Super Nintendo a couple times just to look around and I was sooooo careful, then I watch you rip both the ps1 board apart and destroy and hot glue the plastic on a famicom and it mortified me yet I couldn’t stop watching, you have earned yourself a sub

This guy makes custom builds like he has a 2hr time limit 😅 Love the disk drive in the snes slot 😚🤌

@elektriktoad2

5 ай бұрын

Great British Bakeoff but for console modding? I would watch that

very epic, the cd drive sticking out the cartridge port tho is too funny man 🤣

Everyone tip toes around these things so delicately and james just out here snapping boards and grinding off bits 😂😂 love it

Other old console modders: Panic if they scratch the pcb. James: Ah just use the angle grinder.

Holy crap this is the jankiest, most fearless retro DIY i've ever seen, and I am hooked!! Cant wait for moar!

Ah yes, we all have a sony playstation in a toolbox

@seanmckelvey6618

5 ай бұрын

there's a power supply board from an og XBOX in my toolbox 🤣

James’s way of cobbling up video game consoles: if it doesn’t fit, angle grinder and hot glue will do.

To see him destroy parts and pieces that he don't need then put together the rest to have it working again is amazing. Is rough watching this entire video but great work.

I fixed a destroyed Panasonic Q in a similar way. I shoved a spare gamecube board and a laptop psu in it. This vid makes me feel better about my Frankenstein build! Great work!

James turned into dankpods at 10:26 just so we could have the full Pepsi man experience. truly the best creator of our time

0:03 thats cursed

@ellyaalias2126

4 ай бұрын

0:03 Bruh 😂

This was my first time seeing someone anglegrind a PCB. that it works inspires me to continue my franken-vr project.

I wish I had the same amount of confidence in myself that James has in hot glue

It's so mesmerizing watching this guy gut those components with such confidence 😂 Looks like a modding Speedrun, with how he just power saws everything

This embodies everything that I love about tinkering and modding. Glorious. Simply glorious.

For how complicated this is im so thankful that its just only 10 mins

He's just so chill for how chaotic his work is. "Oh well I kind of messed up doing this crazy thing, let's do another crazy thing to fix it!"

Your calm voice betrays the absolute carnage I'm seeing on my screen.

I showed my dad this vid and he said, "That's the hackiest motherf***er i've ever seen" and he is an electrical engineer. But I have to agree. Angle grinding not just the case but the motherboard, ripping off unused components, and using a 9V switch to break main. I literally had to lie that you were joking to my dad he was actually horrified. Never in my life have I ever scene every ribbon being a slice of a bigger ribbon or soldering to different ribbons together they brake if I look at them the wrong way. I don't think theirs's an inch of this console not held together with hot glue which is impressive and horrifying. I can't wait for the next video. I've never quite seen anything like this. The crafty way you get away with using all the wrong things is insane.

0:10 so much nostalgia in one little boot up sequence ❤❤❤

love this channel. James is making the whole process to look like absolutely carnage while same time skillfully building something amazing.

This video was such a joy to watch. The way you just slap, throw and cut through the hardware and electronics without a care in the world because you know what you're doing anyways is super enjoyable to see

This is the most chaotic DIY console restoration video I've ever seen and I love it.

i dont know how you can get such results with the hackery. but i love it

In a sea of highly produced "clean" restoring/retro videos seeing this chaotic "careless" mess is very refreshing. At first I was baffled and then it hit me: "This is real life, this is what I would do (minus the glue gun, we don't like each other)." I got so used to the silent, ultra minimalistic productions that it made me think that that's how it should be, BUT NO! And for that I thank you and you got a new subscriber

On top of the absolutely chaotic way James somehow manages to get this working despite only using glue and a circular saw, i do also love watching him develop as a content creator and become more and more characterful with each passing upload.

You should be working with all those video game companies because you’re pretty smart especially with those parts etc! Nice work 😮

“It’s pretty much completely the wrong thing”